Other People’s Stories

(ISABELLE sits, leafing through a movie magazine.)

[ISABELLE]
Other people's stories
Other people's lives
Socialites and film stars
Cheating on their wives
Debutantes in ball gowns
Young and fancy free
People on adventures
Not me

Other people's intrigue
Other people's sin
Why does David Niven
Live with Errol Flynn?
Other people's secrets
Bursting to be told
Hotbeds of excitement
Minе's cold

Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais
Havе fallen out with Charles Trenet
Frank Sinatra's in Montmartre
In a silver Chevrolet
And where is Greta Garbo?
And who is Howard Hughes?
It's other people's stories
And other people's news

You won't find my story
In a magazine
A young girl from a convent
All of seventeen
Then she had a suitor
His beard was turning gray
Imagine her reaction
Dismay!

Mother said, Be grateful
You're not to make a fuss
Love will happen later
That's how it was for us
Mother said he's wealthy
Be glad of what you get
Love will happen later
Not yet

Other people's secrets
Bursting to be known
My mysterious husband
Has secrets of his own
Me, I have my daydreams
Until they all come true
Other people's stories
Will do

(DUSOLEIL watches her go.)

[DUSOLEIL]
She makes the starlight shine
The perfect wife - not mine
The iridescent
Isabelle